The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-10-05
A SMOOTH SEA TRIP, WITH LAND
SIGHTS THROWN IN.


whole way, cannot be had among
these islands, than the regular tri-
monthly trip of the Inter-Island
! Steam Navigation Company's stea-
mer w. G. Hall.
The steamer is staunch and
steady, travels at good speed, and
has excellent accommodations for
passengers. The Captain, the Pur-
ser, the Steward, and, in short, all
the officers, are civil, attentive, and
accommodating.
The Hall leaves Honolulu alter
nately on Tuesdays and Fridays,
and makes the round trip in eight
days. Ten o'clock A. NJ, is her reg
ular time of departure.
AS soon as outside the port of
Honolulu, the steamer turns her bow
in an easterly direction, and in
water which is still and smooth in
ordinary weather, she passes Wal
kiki, Diamond Head, and Cocoa
Head. Then comes the narrow
channel which separates Oahu and
Molokai, where the water is little
troubled. She soon cross this, and
again enters smooth water on the
lee side of Molokai. On this island
the settlements of Kaunakakai, Ka-
malo, and Pukoo are passed within
view.
The next .agitated water is the
channel between Molokai and Maui.
This, too, is of short duration, from
which the steamer passes into a
smooth SEQ under the shelter of
Maui. The island of Lanai is visi-
bic to the right.
The first stopping place is Laha-
ina, ON Maui, which is reached be-
fore shutdown on the day of start
ing. The steamer lies in the offing
sufficiently long to allow of landing
freight and passengers in boats.
As viewed from the Hall, Lahaina
is very pretty place. Cottages,
for q distance of about two miles,
skirt the beach, surrounded with
shade trees. Behind these, spread
out over the plains and on the hill
slopes, are green fields of sugar
cane.
About an hours steaming from
Lahaina is the second stopping
place, Maalaea Bay.
From here the Hall proceeds at
night, and at daylight reaches the
first place of call on the island of
Hawaii-Kailua. During the night
she has passed along the coast of
East Maui, under the shelter of the
largest known extinct crater, Ha-
leakala, and crossed the channel
which intervenes between Maui and
Hawaii. This is the toughest water
and the longest stretch of rough
water on the whole trip.
From Kailua the steamer proceeds
along the Kona coast, near the land,
which takes her most of the day,
in water almost as smooth as fish
pond. Keauhou, Kealakekua Bay,
(where Captain Cook was killed and
where now stands monument to
his memory, and Hookena, pretty,
neat-looking little native villages
nestled down by the sea, are all
places of call, for discharging
freight and passengers. There are
other villages along the coast at
which the steamer does not stop.
The general characteristic of the
Kona Coast back from the beach,
as it appears from the steamer, may
be briefly described by the word
"sameness," The mountain side,
for it is all mountain side from end
to end. is not precipitous, but a
comparatively gentle slope. 1t is
mostly covered with trees, and
dotted here and there with cottages.
Bananas, oranges, lemons, cocoa
nuts, sugar cane, &C., are album
dant, but not one sugar plantation
exists in the entire district.
A little past the middle of the
afternoon, the southernmost point
of the island is rounded, and the
Hall steers northeast. Here the
trade winds are encountered, and
consequently the sea is rougher.
We are now in the district of Kau,
a sugar region. The first village,
on a little bay, is Honuapo. There
is sugar plantation here, and two
others near by, inland, Hilea and
Naalehu. They are now all three
under one management.
Less than an hours steaming
brings the Hall to the end of the
journey, in the evening of the second
day out from Honolulu, and she
drops anchor at Punaluu. The land
ing is a little gulf right in among
rough black lava rocks. You land
in boats, as at all the places on the
route, the steamer never once COM
ing to wharf.
Near the landing is commo-
dious, convenient, and comfortable
family hotel, kept by Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee. The house has wide verandahs,
with abundant and comfortable sit
ting accommodation. In the cen
tire of the building is large and
we'll furnished sitting room, which is
surrounded by bedrooms equally
well furnished, with soft beds and
clean bedding. Grassy lawns sur
round the building. Near by is a
splendid bathing enclosure, with